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30th Oct 2005

UFOs, Mars and Space Science


Chris Smith

Sarah Urquhart

This week we delve into the unexplained, as ex-UFO official Nick Pope from the Ministry of Defence discusses Britain's biggest UFO case, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, Anna Lacey visits Rendlesham to talk to Brenda Butler and Vince Thurkettle about their involvement in the alleged sighting, Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University discusses Mars, asteroid impacts and life on other planets, and Surendra Verma, author of The Tunguska Fireball, tells the story of how an area of forest the size of Greater London was mysteriously flattened in 1908.

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Questions

 

How can I stay in one room and study and read and relax all day long and nothing seems funny. But my bedroom always smells in the morning after spending the same amount of time in there. It's that funny sleep smell. Is there some sort of chemical thing that takes place while I sleep or do I emit an aroma while I sleep that's different from my normal daily scent?


 

We'd like to thank James Smith, who got in touch via email and thinks he has the answer to the 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight' question we had the other week (is there any truth in the saying 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight?)


 

You talked in the past about dropping an object down a tunnel that's been drilled right through the earth. I've been in all night debates about this. What would happen if a person jumped into the hole? Also, what would happen when you got to the middle? Would gravity be different, because the world is all around you, rather than you being on top of it. Also, would the air pressure in the tube be so great that you'd be squashed flat?


 

Here in the Philippines we have a delicacy called a balot. This is a half incubated duck chick. The fully shelled chick is cooked in boiling water, cracked open and eaten with vinegar and salt. It's really tasty. What concerns me is the rising incidence of bird flu. Is there a chance that my balots might be infected too, or are they sterile?


 

How do butterfly wings get all their colours?


 

Where do people get all the information for the movies, and how do you know that aliens are really real?


 

In 1993 or 1994 during the darkest part of winter, I went outside and looked up. The sky was quite clear and there was a silver cigar shaped object that flew overhead at the level of a reasonably low flying aircraft. A few days later there was an article in the paper saying police had also seen a UFO.


 

I've seen a UFO. It was 1959 from a block of flats in Hoburn. It was solid and looked like chrome and was 100 foot long. There were two windows and two space men in it.


 

I've had two sightings. The first one was big like an orange, and it was moving very sharply. It kept moving around for about 8 minutes. On another occasion I saw what looked like two car headlights through fog. There was no sound and they were approximately 750 feet up in the air. They were about 30 or 40 feet apart, and as one went on, the other went off.




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Light from the sun takes about 6 hours to reach Pluto
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Hummingbirds can fly backwards
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The longest flight by a paper aeroplane lasted 27.6 seconds
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Spiders secrete special substances on their feet to stop them sticking to their own webs
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